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In this episode, Kaushik peppers Donn with questions about his foray into Android Turbo, Hotwire, and the concept of “Native Where You Need It”.

Donn recently launched Android Jumpstart, the Android client for the Jumpstart Rails trifecta. Jumpstart Rails allow you to launch your SaaS business much faster than if you were to do it from the ground up.

The Android client for Jumpstart Rails builds on top of Turbo and Hotwire, two technologies that help power the Hey email client and Basecamp (the project management app). By using Turbo and Hotwire you’re able to get very fast response times and speed with “HTML Over the Wire” (aka Hotwire) with Websockets and much more. This allows your web app to be super fast and when packaged with Android Turbo, allows your web app to live within a native shell. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean its simply a web wrapper. With Android Turbo you can specify which URL routes you’d like to be as native and which ones you’d like to remain web-based. This means you can choose to use Native when you need it, and delegate back to the web for everything else.

This is the solo founder, indie-hacker, and startup SaaS dream come true. You can come to market faster, iterate with a smaller team and get native benefits when and where you need it, all while also allowing your application to be flexible in a web manner.

If you’re thinking about building a SaaS app that needs a web presence, Android and iOS presence but want fully native experiences in certain areas then this will be the episode for you.

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In this episode Donn and Kaushik talk to Konstantin Liakhovskii about Expo development and how it takes cross platform development and its productivity to the next level. 

Konstantin dives deep into the usages and reasons why Expo (and React Native) are still very good options for companies that are looking to adopt a cross-platform application. 

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In this episode Donn sits down and talks to Ephraim Schmitt about how he changed careers from being an exotic car salesman to a mobile software developer. It’s a fascinating and inspiring story for anyone looking to get into software development. 

We talk about the mental and financial struggles, how he learned to start coding, how you can find opportunities everywhere, how to interview better, where to look for positions when you’re just starting out, why volunteering/doing something for free early on is fast way to open doors and build your network and so much more.

If you or anyone you know is looking to break into the software industry, this is the podcast for you. You’ll leave with a couple  pages of notes, tips and the inspiration you need to jump into the world of software development.

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In this episode Donn and Kaushik are back together on the mic. After an extended break, they both returned renewed and ready to dive into all things software, starting off with IDE themes, plugins and what they’ve been up to since they were last on the show together.

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In this episode Donn talks about something not giving up and persevering when the going gets tough in software, your career and more. It’s easy to give up, but the real reward is when you persevere.

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about some of the books that they’re reading and thoughts and recommendations on each.

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik reunite for an episode on how they use productivity tools like various todo apps as well as how the organize information for storage and easy retrieval in their day to day lives.

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In this episode, Kaushik talks to his good friend Prabhjot and learns about “Android Enterprise“. This is the official way for companies or organizations to enable the use of Android devices and apps in the workplace. 

Prabhjot talks about how he setup the infrastructure to provision devices and the different capabilities the solution allows.

If you ever wondered what kind of control is possible, listen to this episode and get a nice scary reality check. After listening to this episode, you’ll think twice before accepting free devices from companies or letting policy apps be installed on your phone.

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In this episode, Donn continues to dive into his favorite software book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He talks about one of the fundamental tactics of the book: Introducing seams

You’ll learn what a seam is according to the book, as well as how Donn interprets it so that you can get the same benefit he has gotten from it. You’ll learn how to introduce seams into your codebase through method injection, interfaces, abstract classes, and the static gateway pattern (aka: wrapper pattern).

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In this episode, Donn talks to Jay Ohms about Turbo Native for Android, Hotwire, and how to build apps faster with Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and Strata. Jay is an Android developer at Basecamp.com and Hey.com and has been building Hey with Android Turbo since it has been released (he’s one of the developers of it).

You’ll learn what Hotwire is, how to use it with Android Turbo (and Stimulus and Strata) and how you can create apps faster and more maintainable by marrying the concepts of the web with native code. It’s a fascinating technology, and one that Donn will be using very shortly for a SaaS product he’s working on.